Lavenia Padarath (née Wainiqolo; 1944/1945 – July 14, 2019) was a Fijian politician.
Padarath won the Nausori Naitasiri Open Constituency for the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) in the 1999 parliamentary election.
[1] Along with many other parliamentarians, she was kidnapped by gunmen led by George Speight and held hostage at the parliamentary complex during the civilian coup d'état of 2000.
Her son, Ben Padarath, also contested the 2006 election, but as a candidate of the National Alliance Party of Fiji.
Padarath publicly criticized her son for saying that political power should remain in indigenous Fijian hands, saying that such comments were racist and contrary to the way he had been brought up.